Dynamic analysis, circuit realization, control design and image encryption application of an extended Lü system with coexisting attractors

This paper introduces an extended Lü system with coexisting attractors. The number and stability of equilibria are determined. The coexisting attractors of the system are displayed by the bifurcation diagrams, Lyapunov exponent spectrum, phase portraits. It is shown that the system has a pair of strange attractors, a pair of limit cycles, a pair of point attractors for different initial conditions. The circuit implementation of the chaotic attractor and coexisting attractors of the system are presented. The control problem of the system is studied as well. A controller is designed to stabilize the system to the origin and realize the switching between two chaotic attractors based on the passive control method. Moreover, a chaotic image encryption algorithm is proposed according to the system. The performance of the algorithm is numerically analyzed.